Print Software
This section of WhatTheyThink aggregates all of the news, educational content, and analysis about the software that drives print businesses, from order entry through shipping and invoicing. It is combined in a single area so that our members and the industry as a whole can go to a single place to learn how software is changing the business of print and gain actionable ideas on how they may apply new solutions to their own business problems.
Commentary & Analysis
Unlocking Printer Performance: The Key Role of a DFE in Driving Efficiency
Get More from Your Print Operations
Zaikio: Progressing in Procurement
Printers Share Their Workflow Automation Success Stories
Product Spotlight: Getting Product Personalization Right with LiveArt
Gamechanger and Online Print Booster: 30 Years of PDF
Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance
Tech Outlook: A Framework for Automation
Utilizing CRM Tools to Sell Print
Manual Steps are Piling Up in Customer Service
Stepping Over Dollars to Pick Up Pennies
DocketManager Aims to Help Customers Spend Time on Profitability: An Interview with Jay Farr
News
Significans Automation Strengthens Relationship with Elitron America
SpencerMetrics Marks a Decade of Data-Driven Excellence in Print & Packaging Production Insights
Ernie Crawford, President and CEO of Crawford Technologies, to Give Keynote Address at MAILCOM 2023
Konica Minolta Brings to Market New DFEs Based on Fiery FS600 Pro Software
Esko and Fiery Partner to Extend Advanced Digital Print Technologies and Packaging Workflow
GMG Color Launching Digital Press Game-Changer at Labelexpo 2023
Product Spotlights
Product Spotlight: Getting Product Personalization Right with LiveArt
Consumers are no longer satisfied with only buying mass-produced products. Online and brick-and-mortar print shops have offered B2B and B2C buyers the ability to customize printed products, but the process is sometimes complex and hard to understand. Pat McGrew looks at LiveArt’s web-to-print services which address the gap between off-the-shelf web-to-print solutions available in the market and the growing needs of printers requiring more custom-tailored solutions for their clients.
Bring Agility to Your Print Business with First Line Software
It can be challenging for print businesses to be agile, particularly production printing rooted in small-batch, custom manufacturing. To reach the peak of business agility, you may need to be agile using software and software services. Pat McGrew and Ryan McAbee look at how First Line Software’s custom software and data solutions can help improve print business agility.
Print Software Product Spotlight: Web-to-Print Solutions that Adapt to Your Needs with Customer’s Canvas
Sometimes the hardest part of taking advantage of the available marketplace is having tools that work they way you need them to. One size does not fit every situation. That is where Customer’s Canvas comes in. The team at Aurigma work with their clients to craft the web-to-print solution that will work most efficiently for their business.
Fiery Preflight Pro: Troubleshooting Jobs “Within” the Workflow
EFI Fiery DFEs have been driving digital printers for over 30 years. As the digital printers and the market requirements they serve change, there is a need to bring more automated preflight to the production floor to ensure process consistency, EFI has ensured that their DFE meets those challenges with their customers in mind. This includes the newly released Fiery Preflight Pro, available for Fiery FS500 Pro and newer servers.
Product Spotlight: Canon Press Automation Modules—Optimizing and Simplifying Printing
With the aging out of skilled labor in the print and packaging industry, engaging and training new hires in the intricacies of print is becoming a problem. David Zwang looks at Canon’s Press automation modules, which can simplify the process while optimizing quality and productivity for new and even older digital presses.
Video
Product Spotlight: Getting Product Personalization Right with LiveArt
Published: June 28, 2023
As part of our Product Spotlight series, Pat McGrew talks with Volodymyr Yatsevsky, CEO of LiveArt, about the Ukraine-based company’s origins and its full range of web-to-print products and Services. Watch Video
DALIM Software’s New DALIM Drive at Dscoop
Published: June 6, 2023
David Zwang talks with Colin Price, Managing Director, UK, for DALIM Software, about the new DALIM Drive that the co pan y was showing for the first time in the US at Dscoop. Watch Video
Gershon Alon on HP PrintOS
Published: June 6, 2023
David Zwang talks to Gershon Alon, Head of Software Solutions for HP Indigo, about the latest features in HP PrintOS and how HP is refocusing its commitment to software. Watch Video
Point B Solutions on ePS/HP Indigo Integration
Published: June 1, 2023
In this video, sponsored by eProductivity Software, ePS’s Nick Benkovich talks with Doug Haefele, VP of Technology Solutions for Point B Solutions, about the impact on his business of the recent integration of ePS software with the HP Indigo digital press. Watch Video
Global Graphics Announces MAKO SDK V7.0
Published: May 22, 2023
In this video sponsored by Global Graphics, David Zwang talks with David Stevenson, MAKO SDK Product Manager at Global Graphics. MAKO SDK is an amazing set of development tools for document imaging. It can be integrated into solutions that need document editing, optimizing, and even rendering into compliant PDF/X files from a wide variety of document formats. Watch Video
HP Introduces New PrintOS Software Suite
Published: May 4, 2023
In this interview, sponsored by HP, David Zwang talks to Peter Obradovic, Director, HP Industrial Software Solutions about the new HP PrintOS suite. HP PrintOS software is used by thousands of HP Industrial Print users. This new cloud-based suite now consists of four Power Packs, each concentrating on specific application requirements. Watch Video
Product Strategy: Fiery at the ISA Sign Expo 2023
Published: April 26, 2023
Chris Schowalter, Global Sales Director at Fiery, talks about emerging trends and product strategy at the ISA Sign Expo 2023. Watch Video
Tharstern and eProductivity Software Discuss Their Recent Joining of Forces
Published: March 31, 2023
In this discussion, Nick Benkovich of eProductivity Software (ePS) and Keith McMurtrie of Tharstern discuss the advantages to both companies and their customers. The plan is to maintain Tharstern as a brand and to be able to augment its capabilities with the many tools offered by ePS. Hope you enjoy this fascinating discussion! Watch Video
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